I actually wouldn't mind seeing someone cosplay as her...that's be like, the ultimate minor character cosplay! Plus she has quite an adorible outfit (especially with that little bear...dog..thing she's holding.)

For the most part the dub was pretty good, I enjoyed it a lot But one thing reeeally bothered me: China's voice. It's terrible! all the other voices are well done, but China's is just... so so so so awful. It hurt my brain.

Well, the same could be said about many of their accents. I know that Ukraine's is off, because my apartment manager is Ukrainian. I also know that Russia is off because my church has a couple of Russian families there. Greece doesn't sound too Greek to me.

Point being: at least they tried. The Japanese seiruu sound, to me, like they weren't even trying, as if all of the characters were supposed to all be Japanese.

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Well, keep in mind that this is a 5-minute-per-episode series that's not to be taken seriously at all. Being "perfect" with the accents isn't that big of a deal, especially since some of them sounded like the accents themselves were more like jokes themselves. If Hetalia was to be a serious series, then being as close to accurate as possible would make sense.

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I personally didn't have a problem with the english dub, the only times I had trouble with it was when the voices were going to fast for me to understand, I love england's and Alfreds voices dearly as well as canada's the only hard thing to understand is how fast they talked, other then that I compared them to the japanese I still like the japanese better of course but people like my mom who have a hard time reading subtitles english dub is the best they can watch, so I don't really get upset, either you hate it or you love it, plus if you hate it too much just watch the japanese they are a season ahead after all.

Jacob, I'm having a hard time reading what you're typing. Can you please use periods and capitols? With the way you write, everything flows together, and it's hard to read.

As far as sub/dub goes, in the sub, they are speaking really fast Japanese so the lip flap is fast. The dubbed version has to keep up with the lip synching so they, in turn, have to speak fast. I haven't watched a lot of dubbed Hetalia so I can't really say, but I had no problem with it when I did watch it.

I had a problem with the subtitles since they often had to take over the entire screen to fill in what the blurbs and info boxes said or subtitle three characters at once.

I think it's a matter of us just gettng used to the really fast speaking and the really bulky and fast writng. Luckily I think that most people can register words a lttle faster than hearing. Whle talking, we have to wait for the person to speak the words, but with readng, our brains can use shortcuts and procss things a lttle faster

I like to look at it like this: if I want to read a conversation, I'll grab a manga, not an anime. Anime is meant to watch, not read. Since Hetalia is one of those series that has a lot of chattering taking place at the same time, the screen can get filled with a bunch of text. Plus, there tends to be a lot of typos (especially with fansubs) so it can get tough to figure out what characters are saying sometimes.

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I like to look at it like this: if I want to read a conversation, I'll grab a manga, not an anime. Anime is meant to watch, not read. Since Hetalia is one of those series that has a lot of chattering taking place at the same time, the screen can get filled with a bunch of text. Plus, there tends to be a lot of typos (especially with fansubs) so it can get tough to figure out what characters are saying sometimes.

I think it's a matter of us just gettng used to the really fast speaking and the really bulky and fast writng. Luckily I think that most people can register words a lttle faster than hearing. Whle talking, we have to wait for the person to speak the words, but with readng, our brains can use shortcuts and procss things a lttle faster

Just so you guys know, I purposefully mis-spelled quite a bit of that to see if you would notice. If you didn't notice, I guess my little scheme to show the difference between reading and hearing might have worked

Or you guys could have just been too polite to point out my terrible spelling.

Either way i cant watch hetalia in english no more. it wasent bad in japanese and i didnt mind it becuse The voices were easy to understand and chibi italy was way cute. but english dub .. has made it irrtaing and un watchable the kids i watch they love hetalia in japanese. but when its on in english they lose intress and go back to beating echother up or they ask for sponge bob .... i found that sad ...

I like to look at it like this: if I want to read a conversation, I'll grab a manga, not an anime. Anime is meant to watch, not read. Since Hetalia is one of those series that has a lot of chattering taking place at the same time, the screen can get filled with a bunch of text. Plus, there tends to be a lot of typos (especially with fansubs) so it can get tough to figure out what characters are saying sometimes.

I have been watching mostly subs for 6 years now and once you do it for a while you are able to see the whole sentence and understand it with out having to read each word. So I dont miss any of the animation. Also when my daughter was just begining to learn how to read she would watch sub anime with us and as a result she is the fastest reader in her class. I know it can be hard at first, I had to pause many times when I first started but now it is so worth it to be able to watch subs. Even when I buy a Dub Dvd I still watch the subs w/ the japanese audio.

I generally agree with you with that Wa-kun. I will say that there are some dubs that I massively prefer to the subs. Cowboy Bebop is actually one of them. The movie is so much wittier in English than it is in Japanese. The opening sequence where Spike is in a standoff at a convenience store and the robber's holding an old lady hostage, Spike tells the robber that he doesn't care if the woman gets shot. In Japanese the woman yells "HELP ME!" whereas in English she yells "YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

A little more zip in the English version, and that's only one example.

I like to look at it like this: if I want to read a conversation, I'll grab a manga, not an anime. Anime is meant to watch, not read. Since Hetalia is one of those series that has a lot of chattering taking place at the same time, the screen can get filled with a bunch of text. Plus, there tends to be a lot of typos (especially with fansubs) so it can get tough to figure out what characters are saying sometimes.

I have been watching mostly subs for 6 years now and once you do it for a while you are able to see the whole sentence and understand it with out having to read each word. So I dont miss any of the animation. Also when my daughter was just begining to learn how to read she would watch sub anime with us and as a result she is the fastest reader in her class. I know it can be hard at first, I had to pause many times when I first started but now it is so worth it to be able to watch subs. Even when I buy a Dub Dvd I still watch the subs w/ the japanese audio.

I've been watching subs for over 8 years now, and my feelings on it has gotten stronger, especially the hatred of poor typing skills that (at least) 80% of the fan subs out there are littered with.

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I love Hetalia! Especially the English dub. I think I mainly like it because of Italy....and Todd Haberkorn does such a remarkable job with this role!! It's one of my favorites FUNimation has ever came out with. I'm not sure if you guys know but he just came out with a new website recently called "Team Haberkorn." If you join www.teamhaberkorn.com today you can gain complete access of the website, the latest updates, members only contests and so much more.

Along with pleasing YAOI fans, I think it might be because males are more stereotypically labelled as fighters, especially in the military, which is where the franchise began. (This includes Hungary; apparently she was originally supposed to be a cross-dressing male, but the creator had a change of plans).

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Well I suppose that makes sense, I was thinking the more peaceful countries would be better as women. But oh well, I think the anime is good as it is. And to remain on the topic of dubbing I thought it was fantastic.

But the english dub plays with words more. Like accents but in the japanese dub you dont here them use words for the character's native languege.

But I thought it was more mind numbing in Japanese. But they got their point across more.So I like them both but the english a bit more.

But every one is differant and I think hetalia is an anime you should watch in both japanese and english.....

EDIT: on the yaoi note.... I like my far share of it, but I cant stend hetalia pairings at all.... (only canon) Mostly because infact most of the characters are straight. And I think its disrepectful when people say "screw cannon" (I know that characters are straigh because Hima-papa had said that sweden was officaly gay because the country has it legall threw out the country. So their oriantation is based of the politcal laws)

Just saying.....

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Lolita and "lolita cosplay" are not the same thing, and ever will be. Period.